Love Proverbs

Sayings about Love

Where there is love there is no darkness. ~ Burundi Proverb

A heart in love with beauty never grows old. ~ Turkish Proverb

Old love and wood will burn as soon as they get the chance. ~ South American Proverb

Love has produced some heroes but even more idiots. ~ Swedish Proverb

Being loved is the best way of being useful. ~ French Proverb

Love, pain, and money cannot be kept secret. They soon betray themselves. ~ Spanish Proverb

Love and eggs are best when they are fresh. ~ Russian Proverb

Love is like butter — it’s good with bread. ~ Yiddish Proverb

It is love that makes the impossible possible. ~ Indian Proverb

Love is like a glass that breaks if handled clumsily. ~ Russian Proverb

Where there is love, there is happiness. ~Polish Proverbs

Not all who make love make marriages. ~ Russian Proverb

Love makes the world go round. ~ Traditional Proverb

Where there is love, there is pain. ~ Spanish Proverb

In the face of love and death, courage is useless. ~ Spanish Proverb

Those who love you will make you weep; those who hate you will make you laugh. ~ Russian Proverbs

Love kills with golden arrows. ~ Spanish Proverb

Perfect love cannot be without equality. ~ Scottish Proverb

All is fair in love and war. ~ Traditional Proverb

The one who loves does not hate. ~ Palestinian Proverbs

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love. ~ Traditional Proverb

Love understands all languages. ~ Romanian Proverbs

Love is like a baby: it needs to be treated tenderly. ~ Congolese Proverb

Where there is love, there is peace. ~ Myanmar Proverb

Without love everything is in vain. ~ Indian Proverbs

For people who love even water is sweet. ~ Chinese Proverb

Love will find a way. ~ Traditional Proverb

Love is a crocodile in the river of desire. ~ Sanskrit Proverb

All the world loves a lover. ~ Traditional Proverb

Love tells us many things that are not so. ~ Ukrainian Proverbs

Love rules his kingdom without a sword. ~ Traditional Proverb

Before you love, learn to run through snow without leaving footprints. ~ Turkish Proverbs

Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies. ~ Swedish Proverbs

Love can do much, money can do everything. ~ Spanish Proverb

There is no physician who can cure the disease of love. ~ African Proverb

When love is not madness, it is not love. ~ Spanish Proverbs

Quotations about Love

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.~ Elbert Hubbard

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love ~ Sophocles

You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.~ Henny Youngman

Love is a game that two can play and both win. ~ Eva Gabor

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved .~ George Sands

Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense. ~ Mark Overby

He is not a lover who does not love forever.~ Euripides

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.~ Leo Buscaglia

To say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days. ~ William Shakespeare

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away. ~ Elbert Hubbard

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark! ~ Author Unknown

Who, being loved, is poor. ~ Oscar Wilde

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence ~ H.L. Mencken

You may not love me today, tomorrow, or ever, but I will love you until it kills me, and, even then, you’ll be in my heart.~ Author Unknown

It is best to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all. ~William M.Thackeray

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love. ~ Virgil

A life without love, no matter how many other things we have, is an empty, meaningless one. ~ Leo Buscaglia

Love is blind — marriage is the eye-opener.~ Pauline Thomason

All mankind loves a lover.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

On this earth, though far and near, without love, there’s only fear. ~ Pearl S. Buck

If we want a love message to be heard, it has to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it. ~ Mother Teresa Quotes

Anyone can look at other’s eyes, but Lovers can see into each other’s souls through the eyes.~ Larry Latta

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.~ Rabindranath Tagore

Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind. ~ James Graham

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. ~ Oscar Wilde

Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. ~ Franklin P. Jones

Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight. ~ Samuel Lichtenberg

To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever. ~ Henry Drummond

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge. ~ Comte De Bussy-Rabutin

If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it. ~ Ernest Hemingway Quotes

A woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea. ~ Honore de Balzac

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage – Lao-Tzu

Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit. ~ Kahlil Gibran Quotes

The mirror of life shows you woman or man, but in the heart of the Soul you are neither. This is why Love is blind. ~ C.C. Campbel

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.~ Oscar Wilde Quotes

Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy. ~ Martha Beck

I can live without money, but I cannot live without love. ~ Judy Garland

Love is friendship set on fire~ Jeremy Taylor

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up ~ James Baldwin

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person ~ Mignon McLaughlin

The anger of lovers renews their love.~ Terence

You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly. ~ Sam Keen

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see what petty follies they themselves commit. ~ William Shakespeare

A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one. ~Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked. ~ Erich Segal

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.~ Anatole France

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. ~ William Shakespeare

If you wish to be loved; Love! ~ Seneca

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished. ~ Frank Tebbets

Love lights more fire than hate extinguishes. ~ Ella Wilcox

Love is blind and a deaf-mute too. ~ Patrick Rothfuss

It may be true that love is blind, but only for what is ugly: its sight is keen enough for what is beautiful. ~ Ivan Panin

I’ve been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she’ll kill me.~ Henry Youngman

Where there is love there is life ~ Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Love does not die easily. It is a living thing. It thrives in the face of all life’s hazards, save one: neglect. ~ James Bryden

Live for love. Without love, you don’t live. ~ Author Unknown

When you are in Love you can’t fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams. ~ Dr Seuss

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark. ~ William Shakespeare Quotes

Man loves little and often. Woman much and rarely.~ Basta

Love does not dominate. It cultivates. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. ~ Aristotle

The bravest thing that men do is love women.~ Mort Sahl

Love means never having to say you’re sorry ~ Erich Segal

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.~ Henry Ward Beecher

There is no remedy for love than to love more. ~ Henry David Thoreau

The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved. ~ R.D.Clyde

Lovers never get tired of each other because they are forever talking about themselves.~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.~ Han Suyin

Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart. ~ Author Unknown

Love, while you are able to love. ~ A. Frieligrath

A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses. ~ Author Unknown

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Love those who love you ~ Voltaire Quotes

There’s nothing in this world so sweet as love. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Love is a priceless commodity. It’s the only thing you can give away and still keep. ~ Author Unknown

Love Proverbs and Their Meanings

No subject has gathered more proverbs than love, and the sayings above prove how many faces it wears — joy and pain, madness and wisdom, a force that conquers all and a glass that shatters at a careless touch. Here are the best-known love proverbs explained, so the wisdom inside each one is clear.

• “Love makes the world go round” — love is the force that motivates people and gives life its meaning and movement.
• “All is fair in love and war” — in matters of love and conflict, people will use any means, and the usual rules are set aside.
• “Love will find a way” — true love overcomes every obstacle put in its path.
• “It is love that makes the impossible possible” (Indian) — love gives people the strength and will to achieve what otherwise could not be done.
• “Love understands all languages” (Romanian) — love communicates beyond words, across every barrier of speech and culture.
• “Love can neither be bought nor sold; its only price is love” — love can only be won by giving love in return; money cannot buy it.
• “Where there is love, there is happiness” (Polish) — love is the true source of joy and contentment in life.
• “Where there is love, there is pain” (Spanish) — to love deeply is to make yourself vulnerable to suffering; love and pain travel together.
• “Love is like a glass that breaks if handled clumsily” (Russian) — love is fragile and must be handled with care and tenderness.
• “Perfect love cannot be without equality” (Scottish) — true, lasting love depends on the partners meeting as equals.
• “Those who love you will make you weep; those who hate you will make you laugh” (Russian) — those who truly care tell you hard truths, while enemies flatter you.
• “When love is not madness, it is not love” (Spanish) — real love is passionate and a little irrational; lukewarm feeling is not love at all.
• “There is no physician who can cure the disease of love” (African) — lovesickness has no remedy; love cannot be treated like an ordinary illness.
• “Love is friendship set on fire” (Jeremy Taylor) — romantic love is friendship deepened and kindled into passion.

For related sayings, see our beauty proverbs and friendship proverbs, or explore the full library of proverbs and their meanings.

Love Proverbs — Frequently Asked Questions

What is the most famous proverb about love?

The best-known are “love makes the world go round,” “love conquers all,” and “all is fair in love and war” — each capturing love’s power over everything else.

What does “all is fair in love and war” mean?

It means that in love and in conflict, people feel justified in using any method to win, and the normal rules of fair play do not apply.

What is a short proverb about love?

“Love will find a way” and “where there is love, there is life” are two of the shortest and most enduring — both saying that love overcomes all and gives life meaning.

What do proverbs say about love and pain?

Many pair the two: “where there is love, there is pain” — a reminder that to love deeply is also to risk being hurt deeply.